# Making Consolidated Messages from the alarm pipeline look pr **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [June 12, 2015, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/making-consolidated-messages-from-the-alarm-pipeline-look-pr/10122 "2015-06-12T15:32:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CJVR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/0ea827/32.png) [@CJVR](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/CJVR)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/making-consolidated-messages-from-the-alarm-pipeline-look-pr/10122/1 "2015-06-12T15:32:15Z")
The the consolidate message generated does not look that nice. Is there any way to make the output an html e-mail or at least insert a carriage return between the alarms? This: 3 alarm events have occurred: Alarm “Deviation Alarm” at “Primary Extruder - Zone 2” transitioned to Active at 11:17:11 Alarm “Deviation Alarm” at “Primary Extruder - Zone 4” transitioned to Active at 11:17:11 Alarm “Deviation Alarm” at “Primary Extruder - Zone 6” transitioned to Active at 11:17:11 to this: 3 alarm events have occurred: Alarm “Deviation Alarm” at “Primary Extruder - Zone 2” transitioned to Active at 11:17:11 Alarm “Deviation Alarm” at “Primary Extruder - Zone 4” transitioned to Active at 11:17:11 Alarm “Deviation Alarm” at “Primary Extruder - Zone 6” transitioned to Active at 11:17:11 ---
**Author:** ![CJVR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/0ea827/32.png) [@CJVR](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/CJVR)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/making-consolidated-messages-from-the-alarm-pipeline-look-pr/10122/2 "2015-06-12T18:00:25Z")
Using this: [code]{alarmEvents.Count} alarm events have occurred: {{ - “{name}” on “{displayPath}” went into alarm at {eventTime|hh:mm:ss a}}}[/code] I got this: [code]7 alarm events have occurred: - “Deviation Alarm” on “Line 3 - Primary Extruder - Zone 1” went into alarm at 01:58:23 PM - “Deviation Alarm” on “Line 3 - Primary Extruder - Zone 2” went into alarm at 01:58:23 PM - “Deviation Alarm” on “Line 3 - Primary Extruder - Zone 3” went into alarm at 01:58:23 PM - “Deviation Alarm” on “Line 3 - Primary Extruder - Zone 4” went into alarm at 01:58:23 PM - “Deviation Alarm” on “Line 3 - Primary Extruder - Zone 5” went into alarm at 01:58:23 PM - “Deviation Alarm” on “Line 3 - Primary Extruder - Zone 6” went into alarm at 01:58:23 PM - “Deviation Alarm” on “Line 3 - Primary Extruder - Zone 7” went into alarm at 01:58:23 PM [/code] I can not find any documentation on the format of the consolidated e-mail string. Can someone point me to it? ---
**Author:** ![AlThePal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/althepal/32/3603_2.png) [@AlThePal](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/AlThePal)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 1:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/making-consolidated-messages-from-the-alarm-pipeline-look-pr/10122/3 "2015-08-03T13:47:53Z")
I can’t see any either. Kevin Herron said in [this post](https://inductiveautomation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=13989) that the documentation was being completely written for 7.8. Hopefully this will be included! ---
**Author:** ![MikieC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@MikieC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/MikieC)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/making-consolidated-messages-from-the-alarm-pipeline-look-pr/10122/4 "2020-01-31T17:16:17Z")
You have to use html tags: Modifying the default consolidated message would look like this: \{alarmEvents.Count} alarm events have occured:\ {{Alarm “{label}” transitioned to {eventState} at {eventTime|hh:mm:ss}\}} * * * This gets you the following: 3 alarm events have occurred: Alarm “Label for Alarm Test 1 Goes here” transitioned to Active at 12:12:39 Alarm “Label for Alarm Test 2 Goes here” transitioned to Active at 12:12:39 Alarm “Label for Alarm Test 3 Goes here” transitioned to Active at 12:12:39 ---
**Author:** ![wbaker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/wbaker/32/85315_2.png) [@wbaker](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/wbaker)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 12:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/making-consolidated-messages-from-the-alarm-pipeline-look-pr/10122/5 "2023-03-05T12:50:31Z")
This thread helped me with our SMS format for consolidation and wanted to share what we did. - Note - we are using the Twilio Module from IA. Not sure if there'd be a difference using other sms modules. Expression Block ```auto {alarmEvents.Count} alarm events have occurred. {{ Alarm - {eventTime|MMM dd, YYYY hh:mm:ss aa} {displayPath} }} ``` ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/8/4/846429ba2d9da9434c226cc2bc33ad2cfea22217.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/9/7/9796f1d9e3aee4f776c583ec5782ce56e95090cc.png)